Do you have any URL articles to confirm the speed ?
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Browse All TopicsI remember reading years ago that each tier reduces APP speed.
1. Is this true ?
2. Do you have any URL articles to confirm this ?
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Here's an article about the theory of it, but no actual data.
http://www.lhotka.net/webl
http://www.lhotka.net/webl
was good.
Please post more URLs if you have more.
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by: jaime_olivaresPosted on 2009-11-05 at 09:34:26ID: 25751854
That depends on where are located your tiers.
In a distributed system (all 3 tiers located in different machines) most important delay is caused by communication among them over the network. Countersense if you have 2 or more tiers in a single machine, this effect is dramatically reduced.